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Experience

Experience, unless the context otherwise demands, it should be taken as experience after acquiring the minimum qualifications, required and, therefore, necessarily will have to be posterior to the acquisition of the qualification.

Development Commissioners

Geo. 5, c. 58. S. 6 contains a definition of 'agricultural and rural industries,' and the Commissioners can acquire (s. 5) land compulsorily in accordance with the Schedule to the Act.

Executrix

and extended by the (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 170, by which a married woman is able to acquire and hold any interest in property real or personal either alone or jointly as a trustee or personal

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Enterprise

or goods, or the provision of services, of any kind, or in investment, or in the business of acquiring, holding, underwriting or dealing with shares, debentures or other securities of any other body corporate, either directly or

Electric lighting

the public from personal injury. The Electric Lighting Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 34), gives power to acquire land compulsorily for generating stations, and also contains other important provisions, including (s. 19) exempted of agreements from

Dispauper

reason of his poverty is admitted to sue in forma pauperis, and afterwards, before the suit be ended, acquires any lands or personal estate, or is guilty of anything whereby he is liable to have this privilege

Descent

Descent, one of the two chief methods of acquiring an estate in lands before 1926. It is defined in the interpretation clause of the Inheritance Act, 1833

Coparcenary

Coparcenary, A Hindu coparcenary is narrower body than the joint family. Only males who acquire the birth an interest in the joint or coparcenary property can be members of the coparcenary or coparceners.

Conquest

Conquest [fr. Conquerir, Fr., to acquire; conquiro, Lat., to seek for], the feudal term for purchase. As to the use and meaning of the

Cessio in jure

Cessio in jure, a fictitious suit, in which the person who was to acquire a thing claimed (vindicabat) the thing, the person who was to transfer it acknowledged the justice of the

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